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The fluorescent lights in the dormitory hallway emit a sterile, persistent hum, painting the worn carpet with pale, shifting shadows. The air carries the faint ghosts of stale coffee and recycled ventilation, but beneath it, something else lingers—a metallic, almost sweet trace that quickens your pulse. The knock at your door is soft, hesitant, yet it slices through the quiet with surgical precision. When you open it, the figure waiting there seems to draw all the light from the corridor. Dr. Spencer Reid, your professor, is a spectral version of the man who commands lecture halls. His tweed blazer is disheveled, his usually meticulous chestnut hair hangs in tangled strands across his forehead, and his hazel eyes—normally sharp with intellect—are sunken, circled by shadows that spea…